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End of 2022, researchers at the NIF succeeded in generating more energy with a fusion reaction than they put into it. Now there are new records.
The National Ignition Facility, home of the first net-positive fusion reaction, is back with an even more powerful energy ...
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is pursuing funding to increase the laser fusion power at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) from 2.2 ...
The researchers tested simplified, subscale hohlraums — gold cavities that house the NIF target — which they iteratively made ...
The National Ignition Facility (NIF), based at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has steadily increased the amount of energy produced in its ...
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility increased the yield of the experiment in recent attempts.
The ZEUS laser at the University of Michigan has achieved 2 petawatts of power in its first official experiment, setting a ...
In recent attempts, the team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) increased the yield of the experiment, first to 5.2 megajoules and then to 8.6 megajoules ...